Metal Thrashing Mad 2004 · Anthrax

136 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 14 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
METAL THRASHING MAD 2004 · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 33, 65, 67, 71 and 5 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 110 keep time, 11 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-59.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEWQAS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metal Thrashing Mad 2004?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Metal Thrashing Mad 2004 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Metal Thrashing Mad 2004?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 33, 65, 67, 71 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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